Product Manager by day. Father, runner, reader, and someone who thinks quite a lot about how to live well.
Everything I do now comes back to one word: intention.
This is where I put the things I'm building, racing, reading, and thinking about.
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Around the time of Covid, I took a proper step back and started asking the kind of questions that are easy to avoid when life is loud. What do I actually want from this? What kind of person am I trying to be? What does a good day look like — not a productive one, a good one?
I'd been a fan of the "I'll get a round tuit one day" approach for long enough. So I stopped. Started getting up at 5AM. Started running. Started reading properly. Started journalling. Started building things.
I'm a Stoic at heart (or trying to be — Marcus Aurelius would probably have notes on my progress), a firm believer that small steps compound into something worth looking at, and someone who thinks that pressure is a privilege if you're lucky enough to have things worth doing.
I'm also a dad, which reframes everything else quite helpfully.
I'm a Product Manager by trade — you can find that detail on LinkedIn — but the projects on this site are mine, built out of curiosity and a genuine desire to make things that work better.
A writing app built for one person (me), then shared. Clean, distraction-free, with just enough structure when you need it — a blank canvas for writers to paint their words onto.
I've been running regularly since Covid and it became one of the most anchoring things in my life. I run most mornings before the house wakes up. It is, genuinely, one of the better decisions I've made.
done
coming up
targeting 1:35
first full marathon
I set OKRs for my personal life the same way I would at work — because if something matters enough to want it, it matters enough to be intentional about it.
Current OKRs and personal roadmap — coming soon.
I write at Substack — about building things, running, books I've read, habits that work, and connecting dots between ideas that probably shouldn't be connected.
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